National Republican., 1887-07-08
nothing left but morse track; even the table

nave sGducned MN hnd maze MIN tuenti OF ~
least that, Tor the honor OF our common Chris
tinnity, he would not have commenced 10 chat
ter like Jack daw and to blurt out the news to
every patser-by. and finally resort to the most
public place and recite to the vulgar crowd his
But he was $50 tickledn How could .he
help it-this Christian man, this truthful man.
travel along on that road to the country that
We are all hoping to go TO-, In q few days he
had spread the name Of Mr.. Todd on the foul
and proclaimed by gossipping tongues, has
drvtn shaft OF gflefinto many hearts, and
cast gloom over the very court which sits In
Judgment here to-day.
You saw the hang.dog expression of this
man on the stand, his sheepish look, his down.
cast eyes. Never once did he dare TO lojk
swer out squarely, and say that he knew the
man be pretended 10 SEQ in the woods TO be
the Rev. Francis NJ, Todd, but 1t was always
ZONE % form Of evasion which M seemed Shy to say It.
first approached this point of. recognition he
swore that he said to the man he saw, Good
morning. MIR. Todd and. again, when SOL
with face nverted, az felt IL was Mr.. Todd"
md. again, when asked TO point out the man
in the room he meyer stirred, but with shrng
OF the shoulder got out ut last the words, ut
is the likeness oil the manp'
Now he sweaIs he found Mr. Todd lying
there on white cloth while woman was
"a, 1857, and ALTO that q horse was hitched TO a
tree near by which he first Thought was Mar
stellar's horse, but after saying good morn
ing, Mr.. Todd" concluded he might as well
recognize the horse as the man. and so he
describes the animal and his trappings which
he plainly saw going by the cornaeld the day
6eiGre, ara when ne mas probably @ seen scores s
is the man who Is SO keenly alive 70 the sit.
uation and so tickled about 1t all, and SO
anxious iSr the purity OF the ministry and the
the crowd at Noketville that If Todd had given
him $40 he would have said nothing about It
And is 1t not strange that the man who he
10 taken by surprise should still have re-
NAMED Iecumbent never offered to rise,
never spoke of concesiment? Turner's
cealment would have been the hrst
thought with any man so discovered, aud If
not only $40 but 500 or VI 900 were necessary
the first in pulse OF nature be to set on Turner'S
lips the seal Of silence? Nay, thcre Is n darker
theory than this, for we are at liberty TO con-
ihtre Why should he first think il was Marstei,
Of the horse, which fodd's animal had not?
Here we have the sole accusing witness but
a charge cannot be proved by one witness un-
less the testimony of that one witness is sup
ported by other evidence. Let us see then what
Is the strength Of the corroborating evidence.
The Mitchells, who live 45 miles from the
scene OF action, swear that ON the morning of
May q, Todd rode past their house on his horse
with his broad brimmed hat at O'Clock.
Miss Bodine swears that at $3.50 O'Clock she
saw him riding past Slack's on the road to the
church on trof. To Mr.. Round. who called
Mrs. Allen. sister of Hornbaker, who was In
the house. fixed the time of ToddR passing
there at 10 o'clock.
But that is as far as they can trace him on
which would take him fifteen minutes. thev
would bring him to Curry's cornfeld; where
the men were at work till . o'clock. and where
back between s and O. clock. He could not
have gotten into the woods by that route that
morning without being seen aud recognized.
road from Curry's to Meredith'e. On the con-
trary, three witnesses swear that he did not
cross there and could not without having been
Mr.. Fultz, the painter.
He could not have come down from Slack 5
| on the Warrenton road, because Miss Bodne
The next, however, we see of him he is rid
ing by Mrs. Shaefer's about 9a5 o'clock. Still,
| ty the route of the testimony on the other
S1 hRs %ss s,eSaH S% as nd drYSs1s Sm sSs
Mrs. Sbaefcr thinks II he had been bare
headed she certainly would have observed It,.
She had keen eye for the horse, and noticed
how much improved he was since Slack
parted with him. But after the visit of Horn
baker and the Bodines, and taking the matter
| into prayerful consideration she does not re.
| hat, and yet in her guess as to where Todd was
| going she recognizes the fact that he did at
Times pass up that road to call upon a parish
And what is the next corroboration of Tnr-
| ner's story? A Mr. Richard woodward, living
| at Mr. Washington's. the ostensole, but not the
on horse back from Washington's to Nokesyii 9.
| distance Of seven miles, leaving ut z O'CLOCK
and returning at II O'Clock, travelling at the
rate Of about four miles an hour, nnd.he on
Woodyard says he left Nokesvlllc about $3.50,
the very moment Turner says he discovered
Todd In the woods, and that he came along
| words with Warder, and then went UP 10 Curry's
| gate, were he got the dog. and that he passed
| slack,s at 1910, being still 81 miles from
his dog, he passe d In twenty minutes. BY his
| own account II took him one hour and ten
| minutes to 20 from Eokesville TO Slack's, a dis
| to go like distance to reach Washington's s
| Besides, MI. Curry swears that when Wood
| yard got the dog Il was only $50 O'CLOCK, and
at 0 O'Clock he started for Nokesyllle station
on foot; so that II Wsodyard met him at Ma.
| loney's II must have been not far from 915, and
he must have left NotesViile earlier than $3.50
| 10:40. The reason why he did not meet Todd
| Will presently appear
Then family Of Shaefers living over on the
Bristow road. which route Todd does not claim
to have travelled, swear that they did not see
him pass that morning.
Nobody swears that he saw any man OF
where Turner lays the scene on tina. morning.
On the contrary, all swear that they did not SET
any such thing. =,
were stirring abroad going for mail, aud tc
| the station, and coming from 1t.
Curry says n lady was in brggy going to
ward Nokssyille. woodward says he met hel
that sho was driving toward Nokesville: that
she was yelled, and that we could not know
from him who she was.
lady in a buggy coming up from Cedar Run
station. And this is positively all the evidence
Wi,Lets, Turner, so far as Mr.. Todd is con.
| ceIned,
The two or three interested and prejudiced
put him on the route he claims 10 have taken
only each about an hour or an hour and d
half too carly. Now they may have stretched
f. gys h% time t9 Gs nS the wod
But the trouble with this is that the thought
ful considerate, ,lprayeriul Mrs. schaefer does
not give him time to get into the woods
| cording 10 her statement Todd is just passing
her house at fifteen minutes 70 10 o'clock. aud
heisyet .2miles away from the trysting place
| Now, the trouble with'these witnesses is tina
their testimony does not agree.
And where was Mr.. Todd in reality all thi
time? Our witnesses, the Readings and Hern
dons, start him from DR.. Readings on that
morning at about 9:i5 o'clock, Certainly moi
earlier Than $50, going at pace of four mile,
an hour over muddy roads, and opening an!
shutting gates; going four miles on the route by
Mitchel's, Hershey's, and Bodine's to Slack's
where he arrives some ten or fifteen minute,
before 10. The Slacks testify that he remained
there from twenty minutes to half an hour
and where he was when Woodyard passed anc
| and did not meet him.
Leaving Slack's at ten or fifteen minutes
past 10 ociocE he came on down TO the
church. where he stopped some ten or fifteen
minutes. and then went on to Melen's gate.
where or very near where he met the thr rec
| men--Snow, Maloney, and Ermentront-
about IL o'clock--a little before or after-and
| thence on home TO Mannsses,
| Now. what Is an alibi2 Does II require any
| thing hnI In hhnY thai q man ncnnst.n of nj